If you couldn't change when your environment demanded it Nature scrapped you.

Hand compositors would have to learn to set type by machinery or go down in the struggle for existence.

Survival of the fittest--that was it.

The doubting printer was not there to profit by this lecture.

Though it was but five o'clock, he was down on the depot platform moodily waiting for the six-fifty-eight.
The next number of the _Advance_ was set by linotype, a circumstance of which one of its columns spoke feelingly, and set, moreover, in the presence of as many curious persons as could crowd about the operator.
Among these none was so fascinated as Wilbur Cowan.